Professionals ?

After getting the quotes from the insurance company there is errors in simple addition.
If quotes have these simple errors how can the rest of the quote be accurate? I am but a simple man with a simple education in engineering. Could you imagine me making a small mistake in building a bridge or a oil rig being as much as 10% errors against the the safety of the job.
How can a company a large company work with these errors and have credibility in the market place.
We are looking at the "y disasters" from the "y" generation.

Australian government rewards bad behavior.

The government stops money from parents for a child not attending school. Traditional people as they like to be called get extra money to send children to school. The children are then forced to attend. The children have worked the system for years have worked out if they get suspended from school there parents get the money and everything is all right at home. Suspension is paid for yes bad behavior is paid for. It is about time that payments are made for by not only attendance but also knowledge and the teachers are also paid for not only attendance but also knowledge imparted on the child.
We would then have educated delinquents roaming the streets. Thank god we have computers.

Public records

http://www.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/sinosrch.cgi?method=boolean&query=nrma&meta=%2Fau&mask_path=au%2Fcases%2Fnsw%2FNSWCTTT

Alas "Old fashioned shack Gundagai"

I lived in "the old fashioned shack" in Gundagai. It must be the original as my son went to Canada and posted mail to "Old fashioned shack Gundagai" and I got it. The postman knows when others don't. In March 2012 the house went under water in the floods and severe damage was done to the additions of the structure. There is a small amount of work to be done to the original structure. Where do I begin? The insurance company is leaving me high and dry with an offer of 8,000 it was insured for 145,000. It would be a shame to destroy the place as I lived here for many years and basically the original structure is intact but small.  Interior walls are made from the catholic church bits when renovations were done there some years back.  It even has bullet holes in the windows from a landlord going mad at the tenants. The old newspapers under the carpets still intact from 1949 telling of the war crimes and the hunting down of the Japanese war criminals. Retribution was swift with hangings the favored as they the criminals lost face before death with the shame on the families. If only those walls could talk. How does one repair a house with no money!

Insurance claims and forced to break the law.

There is a tactic that the insurance industries use against policy holders.
During flooding my house went under and there was serious damage to the house. The insurance company secured the services of a contractor to quote on the damage with the brief of make it small. Then they stick with this and will not move. They then say to the contractor that they do not need there services any more. Then they settle with you for this sum of money. You then try to engage the services of this company and surprise surprise they can not do the work as they have been terminated by the insurance company. They the insurance company  lie to you by omission. You are left with the real bill. The difference in my case is $8152.05 and the real price being $156,000. They then say they have cash settled with you. In Australia in NSW it is illegal to do work in excess of $5000 with out the required qualifications.
You are forced to break the law by doing the work yourself. I am qualified and I caught them out and they are sticking to there guns. I will in time name the company but at this stage as the issue is ongoing I will wait. I dare say all the companies use these tactics in one form or another.
Please remember that flood damage takes some time to show itself.
If you are in this same predicament then send a comment and you name will not be published,maybe a class action can be made. Cheers professor Iggle

The Australian governments double meaning

The target species is wild dog and fox the non target species is dogs and cats.  Government body speaking in tongues in a sign.

Good on you  National Sparks and Wildfire. For those who do not know National Parks and Wildlife became National Sparks and Wildfire after the Canberra fires.
We pay people to do this type of sign shame on us and our school system.
Whats the difference between dogs and WILD DOG? I know one is pissed off!

Scenes of the Shoalhaven

This is Ian high siding for gold on the upper reaches of the shoalhaven river.